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Posted on 05/25/2021 8:46:52 AM PDT by lightman
The number of Pennsylvania counties with high spread of COVID-19 can now be counted on one hand.
Only five of the state’s 67 counties are showing substantial transmission of the coronavirus, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said Tuesday. Last week, 22 counties were seeing substantial transmission of the virus, while 40 counties had high spread two weeks ago.
None of the five counties with substantial spread are in the Harrisburg area.
The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests dropped to 4.5% for the week of May 14-20, down from 5.3% the previous week. It’s the fifth consecutive week the positive test rate has dropped. It’s noteworthy because health officials have previously said a positive rate of 5% or higher is a sign of concern.
“We are proud to report that more than 10 million vaccinations have been administered to more than 6 million residents – within our vaccine jurisdiction alone,” Wolf said in a statement. “We still have more work to do, but we are proud of the progress. For each resident vaccinated, we inch closer and closer towards achieving herd immunity, protecting our loved ones and making our communities safer.”
Statewide, 1,186 people are being treated in hospitals for COVID-19 as the number of hospitalizations continues its decline in recent weeks. In mid-March, more than 2,800 people in Pennsylvania were being treated for the virus in hospitals.
“As more residents get vaccinated, the cases are trending downwards,” Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam said in a statement. “We will continue educating all Pennsylvanians as we believe having good information will influence good decisions – like getting vaccinated.”
Wolf said he will remove all COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and gatherings on Memorial Day. He has said the state’s mask order will remain in place until 70% of adults are vaccinated. So far, about 52% of Pennsylvania’s adults are fully vaccinated, state officials said.
Pennsylvania is following the federal government’s relaxed guidance on masks but is asking those who haven’t been vaccinated to wear masks until the 70% benchmark is reached. Some grocery stores and retailers are no longer requiring customers to wear masks.
Some lawmakers have asked the governor to lift the restrictions on businesses Friday, so small businesses that have struggled during the pandemic can have a full holiday weekend at full capacity.
Lyndsay Kensinger, a spokeswoman for Wolf, said via email, “We will continue to monitor vaccination rates and adjust mitigation orders accordingly.”
The Wolf administration uses three categories to gauge the transmission of COVID-19: low, moderate and substantial. The Wolf administration offers a weekly report on the number of counties with substantial spread of COVID-19.
Across Pennsylvania, 58 counties are seeing moderate spread of the virus, while only four counties have low transmission, Wolf’s office said. The Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh regions are all seeing moderate spread.
Here’s a look at the transmission rates in each county.
Low: Cameron, Forest, Montour and Sullivan
Moderate: Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Philadelphia, Pike, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland and York
Substantial: Bradford, McKean, Potter, Venango and Wyoming
Across Pennsylvania, nearly 1.2 million people have contracted the coronavirus and more than 27,000 deaths have been tied to COVID-19, according to the health department.
Most of those who are infected with the coronavirus deal with relatively minor flu-like symptoms and some don’t get sick at all. But doctors say COVID-19 poses risks to everyone, particularly seniors and those with certain health complications.
Wolf true to his Scrooge instincts had announced that restrictions would be lifted at 12:01 AM Memorial Day (Monday) morning.
Science, of course.
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The REAL peak was at Christmas when 6151 were hospitalized.
Nobody has paid attention to Tommie the Cooie in a year.
You can wear a mask if you want but many don't.
Not required, even in Wally World.
Wolf and every eff'ing Democrat and pussy RINO in PA can go to hell. There is no way I am wearing a face diaper. Let's see them make me.
Pure BS. How many of these ppl are asymptomatic? Every person who goes to a hospital for a routine procedure is tested for C19, driving the numbers up.
Using their numbers, 27000 deaths (minus) 15000 (nursing home deaths) = 12,000 deaths (divided by 1200000) = a 1% death rate. For those in Rio Linda, you have a 99% chance of surviving a Covid infection.
What a colossal, power-mongering jerk. Deliberately tone-deaf to PA small businesses economy, owners, and the citizens they employ. Another holiday Wolf surprise for July 4?
BTW: PennLive didn’t provide a PA map. I found these 2 links.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/map/pennsylvania
https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Cases.aspx
Treated in hospitals, or admitted to hospitals? There’s a difference.
Most have not heard. As of 1 May the definition of “infection” changed. The CDC now will not accept a “breakthrough” case if the sample did not show virus in as few as 27 cycles of the PCR count. The norm for non vaccinated is 30-35 cycles.
They are essentially preventing declaration of virus in vaccinated people and then presenting lower infection totals to the public.
Hospitalizations are delineated as with virus or not, and the same restriction applies.
Of course the numbers will fall. They changed the measuring stick.
The only pure data we have is Excess Deaths (over a pre Covid year). They currently show 85+ age group has fallen to 0 Excess Deaths, just as they did last year at the bottom of the March/April peak. 75-84 age group and 65-74 age group both show continued EDs.
In the end, EDs will tell us if and by how much the variants are overwhelming the vaccines, particularly the Indian variant, which the CDC has not even examined yet.
Most of those who are infected with the coronavirus deal with relatively minor flu-like symptoms and some don’t get sick at all. But doctors say COVID-19 poses risks to everyone, particularly seniors and those with certain health complications.
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In this respect, COVID is no worse than the seasonal flu.
Correct.
That boilerplate has been on the PA-DOH “daily doom” for a year but it is never reported by the MSM and few people bother to read the press release all the way to the end.
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